重庆大学城第三中学校2021-2022学年九年级下学期半期调研英语试题

大三中2021-2022学年度第二学期九年级
英语半期调研测试题

本试题卷共12页，满分150分，考试时间120分钟。
注意事项：1.试题的答案书写在答题卡上，不得在试卷上直接作答。
2.作答前认真阅读答题卡上的注意事项。
3.考试结束，由监考人员将试题和答题卡一并收回。
第Ⅰ卷 (共95分)
I. 听力测试。(共30分)
第一节 (每小题1.5分，共9分)
听一遍。根据你所听到的句子，从A、B、C三个选项中选出最恰当的答语，并把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。
1. A. Yes, they do. B. No, he doesn’t. C. Yes, he is.
2. A. By bus. B. By taking exercise. C. By reading aloud.
3. A. Metal. B. 50 dollars. C. In Hong Kong.
4. A. All right. B. I agree. C. No problem.
5. A. Sounds great. B. You’d better not. C. You are welcome.
6. A. Best wishes. B. Good luck. C. Thanks a lot.
第二节 (每小题1.5分，共9分)
听一遍。根据你所听到的对话和问题，从A、B、C三个选项中选出正确答案，并把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。
7. A. Germany. B. Switzerland. C. Mexico.
8. A. To run after an alien. B. To catch the bus. C. To exercise.
9. A. Speaking Chinese. B. Having Chinese food. C. Listening to Chinese.
10. A. At 7:00. B. At 7:20. C. At 7:40.
11. A. Doctor and patient. B. Father and daughter. C. Student and teacher.
12. A. Some rubbish. B. Old clothes. C. Some bags.
第三节 (每小题1.5分，共6分)
听两遍。根据你所听到的长对话，从A、B、C三个选项中选出正确答案，并把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。
听第一段材料，回答第13和14小题。
13. What did Kate use to be like?
A. Tall and fat. B. Short and thin. C. Tall and thin.
14. When did they use to go to the movies together?
A. on Saturdays . B. on Sundays. C. on Mondays.
听第二段材料，回答第15和16小题。
15. How much does an elephant weigh at birth?
A. About 10 kilos. B. Abut 100 kilos. C. About 1,000 kilos.
16. What color are most elephants?
A. Black. B. Brown. C. Gray.
第四节 (每小题1.5分，共6分)
听两遍。根据你所听到的短文内容，从A、B、C三个选项中选出正确答案，并把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。
17. Mr. Lei’s parents had ______ children.
A. 2 B. 3 C. 6
18. When Mr. Lei was 17, his ______ died in an accident.
A. mother B. father C. brother
19. The ______ factory was set up the latest.
A. toy B. food C. bike
20. The bikes were sold to ______.
. A. America B. Italy C. France

II．单项选择。(每小题1分，共10分)
从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案，并把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。
21. Is Russia ______ European country or ______ Asian country?
A. a; an B. a; a C. the; an D. an; an
22. The old man arrived ______ Beijing ______ a cold evening.
A. on; in B. in; on C. at; on D. in; in
23. －Why can’t you get used to the life in Beijing, Ben?
－______ the heavy traffic ______ the high living cost is the reason. I just can’t stand the badly polluted air in the city.
A. Not only; but also B. Either; or C. Neither; nor D. Both; and
24. The shopping mall ______ for two years, but I ______ there only once.
A. has opened; have gone B. has opened; have been
C. has been open; have gone D. has been open; have been
25. Jerry is one of the ______ students I’ve ever met. He hardly dares to speak in public.
A. outgoing B. most outgoing C. shy D. shyest
26. Look at ______. How tidy it is!
A. Lucy’s and Lily’s rooms B. Lucy’s and Lily’s room
C. Lucy and Lily’s rooms D. Lucy and Lily’s room
27. —What do you think of the conflict between Russia and UKraine(俄乌冲突) ?
—It’s hard to say. But I’m looking forward to ______ this can be over soon .
A. see B. seeing C. saw D. seen
28. I ______ there would be an exciting football match on Channel 5 the next weekend.
A. will be told B. have told C. was told D. will tell
29. —Would you mind keeping the windows and the door closed?
—______ . If so, there will be less fresh air in the room.
A. Of course B. Of course not C. Never mind D. That’s all right
30. —Could you tell me ______ this morning?
—I am sorry, Mrs. Smith. I got up so late that I couldn’t catch the first bus.
A. why were you late for class B. how did you go to school
C. why you were late for class D. how you went to school

III．完形填空。(每小题1.5分，共15分)
根据短文内容，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个能填入相应空格内的最佳答案，并把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。
A group of adults, highly succeeded in their jobs, went to visit their professor. Soon they began to complain about the stress and problems in work and life.
The professor went to the kitchen and returned 31 a pot of coffee and all kinds of cups－crystal, glass, plastic; some nice looking, some plain looking. And the students noticed that some were expensive, some were cheap. And he told them to help 32 to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said, “I’ve noticed that all the nice looking expensive cups were 33 up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. Although 34 is normal for you to take only the best for yourselves, that is the root of your problems and stress. You know that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. And 35 you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, 36 you all went for the best cups .”
Now think about this: Life is the coffee, the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup does not change the quality of our life. Sometimes, by paying 37 only to the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee that God has 38 us. God gave us the coffee, not the cups. Please enjoy your coffee!
The 39 people don’t have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. Live simply. Love sincerely. Care deeply. Speak 40 . And leave the rest to God.
31. A. at B. in C. for D. with
32. A. them B. themselves C. you D. yourselves
33. A. taken B. left C. added D. mixed
34. A. this B. that C. it D. there
35. A. who B. how C. what D. that
36. A. and B. so C. but D. however
37. A. money B. attention C. advantage D. record
38. A. taught B. provided C. returned D. bought
39. A. happy B. happily C. happier D. happiest
40. A. loudly B. kindly C. quickly D. slowly

IV. 阅读理解。(41-43小题，每小题1分，44-59小题，每小题2分，共35分)
阅读下列材料，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳答案，并把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。

A
Poems (Translated by Xu Yuanchong)
Pictures
Notes
Fishing in Snow
By Liu Zongyuan
From hill to hill no bird in flight;
From path to path no man in sight.
A lonely fisherman afloat①
Is fishing in snow, in a lonely boat.

①on the river
To Wang Lun
By Li Bai
I, Li Bai, sit aboard a ship about to go.
When suddenly on shore your farewell songs o’erflow②
However deep the lake of Peach Blossoms (桃花) may be,·
It is not so deep, O Wang Lun! As your love for me.

②goodbye
Song of Tomorrow
By Qian Fu
Tomorrow comes and again comes tomorrow,
Tomorrows are like rivers that endlessly flow.
I fall my things are put off till tomorrow,
My time wasted to no purpose will brew woe③.

③cause trouble

41. In Fishing in Snow, the first two lines have the same rhyme (韵) /ait/ while the last two have _____.
A. /ə:t/ B．/u:t/ C．/aut/ D．/əut/
42. Li Bai felt ______ when he heard goodbye songs from Wang Lun.
A. free B. thankful C. sad D. happy
43. According to Song of Tomorrow, people would learn that ______.
A. no pains, no gains B. we should work hard all day long
C. today’s work shouldn’t be put off till tomorrow D. we can’t give up even if we have no support
B
Waste is everywhere in the school. Some students ask for more food than they can eat and others often forget to turn off the lights when they leave the classroom. They say they can afford these things. But I don’t agree.
____▲___. Although China is rich in some resources(资源), we are short of others, for example, fresh water. It’s reported that we’ll have no coal or oil to use in 100 years. So if we go on wasting our resources, what can we use in the future and where can we move?
In our everyday life, we can do many things to prevent waste from happening like turning off the water taps when we finish washing, turning off the lights when we leave the classroom, trying not to order more food than we need, and so on. Little by little, everything will be changed. Waste can be stopped one day if we do our best.
44. From the passage we know that some students often ______ in the school.
A. throw rubbish everywhere B. sleep with the lights on
C. eat too much D. waste things
45. Which sentence is the best to be put in the “ ▲ ”?
A. China is one of the biggest countries in the world
B. Waste can bring a lot of problems
C. The government must develop laws to stop waste happening
D. Resources are valuable
46. According to the passage, we may______ in 100 years.
A. still have enough oil B. have no coal or oil to use
C. still have enough coal D. move to other planets
47. The best title of this passage may be ______.
A. Different Resources B. Future in China
C. Stop Wasting D. School Life
C
How do you deal with plastic bags from the supermarket? Throw them away or reuse them? How about eating them?
EnviGreen in India has made a bag with natural ingredients(成分). It looks and feels just like plastic, but can be broken down. The bags bring no harm to the environment. Both humans and animals can safely eat them. EnviGreen’s founder Ashwath Hedge spent four years trying out such a thing of 12 natural ingredients. It includes potatoes, vegetable oil and bananas. He made the ingredients into liquid (液体) and used the liquid to make the bag.
Although the EnviGreen bags are much more expensive than those usual plastic bags, they are good for our environment. Usually, it takes 1,000 years for usual plastic bags to break down. But an EnviGreen bag can naturally break down in less than 180 days. It also breaks down in less than a day in water, and in about 15 seconds in boiling water. Maybe the EnviGreen bag could be a solution to the world problem of plastic pollution.
48. The writer starts the passage by ______.
A. showing an example of the topic B. asking questions
C. pointing out his opinion D. providing background information
49. The special bag may not be made from ______.
A. bananas B. vegetable oil C. potatoes D. milk
50. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Ashwath Hedge spent four years trying out the EnviGreen bag.
B. The EnviGreen bags are widely used in India now.
C. The EnviGreen bags are made from 12 kinds of vegetables.
D. The EnviGreen bags are cheaper than usual plastic ones.
51. The main difference between a usual plastic bag and an EnviGreen one is the _____.
A. weight B. ingredients C. shape D. sense of touch
D
Homesick is a compound(复合) word made up of home and sick. You know what each word means on its own, of course. But think about what the words mean when they are used together. Homesick means sick for home.
Now think for a minute about it. If you change the word home in the definition(释义) to the word “sea”, would the definition fit seasick? Does seasick mean sick for sea? It means something quite different. Seasick means sick by the movement on the sea. When you are homesick, the only place you want to be is at home. When you are seasick, the last place you want to be is at sea.
Have you ever heard of a person being heartsick? Heartsick doesn’t mean that something is wrong with a person’s heart. People are heartsick when they are hurt deep inside and when they feel as if their hearts are broken.
But, on the other hand, we have such compound words as handshake and handbag. Perhaps you may write definitions for them and knowing something like this must be helpful in your English study.
52. When we say a person is heartsick, we mean that ______.
A. there is something wrong with his heart B. his heart needs testing
C. he’s sorry at heart D. he’s terribly disappointed and sad
53. The underlined part the last place you want to be in Paragraph 2 means ______.
A. where you want to be most B. where you want to be least
C. where you go the last D. the last place you want to go to
54. The definitions of handbag and handshake are ______.
A．easy to know B．difficult to know
C．impossible to learn D．unnecessary to learn
55. The writer wants to tell us that______.
A. there are many compound words in English
B. the building of compound words is simple
C. the definitions of compound words are hard to guess
D. not all the compound words are what they seem to be
E
Bangbang men, who move heavy things without help from modern technology, were once the symbol of the mountain city, Chongqing. But great changes have taken place to them during the past years. A 2010 survey showed that there were over 400,000 bangbang men in Chongqing. Today, however, only about 2,000 are still doing this job, according to another study.
64- year-old Liu Changming is one of them. He became a bangbang man 17 years ago. He’d carry kilos of things, often walking hundreds of meters up and down streets and getting from 10 to 30 yuan. All he needs was a bamboo stick. Back then he had to compete with other bangbang men for customers. Now, he doesn’t have to.
“It is very hard to get business,” Liu told the newspaper. Yet the man is lucky. Several years ago he found a fixed job in one of Chongqing’s most crowded tourist places, the Hongya Cave, helping a restaurant move out its kitchen waste twice a day. “If it had not happened, I wouldn’t be a bangbang man anymore,” said Liu.
When Liu first became a bangbang man, there were more than 30 others doing the same job in the Hongya Cave. With the development of the city, more and more shop owners choose to use their own trucks or depend on delivery(搬运) services to move things. The number slowly fell to three just before the COVID-19 broke out. As it still influences tourism, he’s now the only bangbang man left in the neighborhood.
When talking about his used-to-be-bangbang-men friends and their future, Liu said sadly, “Most of them are farmers. They are hard-working, responsible and can stand the hardship. But in this modern city, there seems just no place for some of them. Some have chosen to return to the countryside. Who knows whether it’s good or not?”
“Chongqing has changed so fast. The city becomes safer and you can see high buildings being built all the time,” said Liu, adding that changes bring those bangbang men who still stay in the city as dishwashers or security guards more chances to live a better life. However, when asked whether he would keep on doing this job, he just smiled, “After all, Chongqing is built on hills.”
56. What do you know about Liu?
A. He became a bangbang man at the age of 47.
B. He often competes with others for customers now.
C. He got 30 yuan every time he carried things.
D. He only moves things in the most crowded places.
57. The number of bangbang men in the Hongya Cave has dropped NOT because ______.
A. shop owners use their own trucks to move things
B. delivery services become popular
C. the Hongya Cave becomes less and less popular among tourists
D. COVID-19 still has a bad influence on tourism
58. We can infer from the passage that ______.
A. Many bangbang men in Chongqing have chosen to returned to the countryside
B. Liu must be the last bangbang man in Chongqing
C. bangbang men will never disappear as the city is built on hills
D. Liu might still keep on working as a bangbang man in the future
59. Which one can be the best mind map of the passage?
A. B.


C. D.

V. 口语应用。(每小题1分，共5分)
阅读下面对话，从方框内7个选项中选择5个恰当的句子完成此对话，并把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。
A: Hi, Albert. 60 How have you been these years?
B: Sorry, I don’t know you. Who are you?
A: I’m Rudy, your classmate. 61
B: Let me see. Oh, you are Rudy! I heard you were in Tsinghua University.
A: Yes, but now I have finished the university.
B: 62 But now you are thin and tall, so I couldn’t…
A: Really? I used to have sweet food. I ate too much. So I was very fat.
B: 63
A: Yes, I still wear glasses.
B: Where are you working now?
A: I’m in Chongqing University. I have been a teacher of the university.
B: You are great. Well, it’s almost dinner time. What do you feel like eating? 64
A: Thank you. But I have a meeting.
B: All right. See you next time.
A: See you.
A. You used to like sports, didn’t you?
B. Don’t you remember me?
C. I can treat you to dinner.
D. I haven’t seen you for ages.
E. You used to be short and heavy.
F. OK, I’d like to.
G. Did you use to wear glasses?
第II卷 （共55分）
VI．任务型阅读。(65-67题，每小题2分，68题3分，共9分)
阅读下文并回答问题。
The Spring Festival Gala(春晚) hosted by China Central Television each year has become an important part of the Chinese Lunar New Year celebration since 1983. As an important part of traditional Chinese culture, the celebration of Spring Festival is spreading around the world.
The Spring Festival Gala is combined with songs, dances, comic sketches, opera and folk arts. Harmony(和谐) and reunion(团聚) are the two themes of the gala. With a cheerful atmosphere, the gala is filled with laughter and applause from the beginning to the end. The gala usually starts at 8:00 on New Year’s Eve and lasts for about four hours. The program’s TV ratings have ranked first among China’s different shows over the past thirty years.
But it’s difficult to fit all audiences’(观众的) tastes. Each year the gala hopes to absorb(吸收) new ideas and surprise people. So it has become a big challenge for CCTV and its creative staff. In recent years, some people have thought the Spring Festival Gala should be canceled. But lots of people still support it. Some local TV stations even have begun to host their own shows, which have met the growing cultural needs of audiences. One successful example is Hunan TV’s gala. Another new type of show is the Shanzhai (copycat) Spring Festival Gala Show. Whether people watch CCTV’s gala or other similar shows, Chinese people will surely enjoy themselves on the Lunar New Year’s Eve.
65. Did CCTV first begin to host the Spring Festival Gala in 1983?

66. What are the themes of CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala?

67. Why does CCTV have to absorb new ideas and surprise people into the gala every year?

68. Do you think it’s necessary for CCTV to continue the Spring Festival Gala? Why or why not?

VII．完成句子。(每空1分，共10分)
根据所给提示，完成句子。每空一词，含缩略词。
69. He was asked to finish the work alone. (改为否定句)
He ____________ ____________ to finish the work alone.
70. His grandparents are used to taking a walk after supper to keep healthy. (对划线部分提问)
____________ are his grandparents used to ____________ after supper to keep healthy?
71. What useful information it is! (改为同义句)
____________ ____________ the information is!
72. 汤姆这个周末计划在家学习，而不是外出闲逛。（完成译句）
Tom plans to study at home ___________ ____________ hanging out.
73. 直到有一天他长大了才会意识到父母的艰辛。（完成译句）
He ____________ realize how hard his parents’ lives are ____________ he grows up one day.
VIII．短文填空。(每空2分，共16分)
根据下面短文内容，在短文的空格处填上一个恰当的词，使短文完整、通顺。
During the summer vacation I read a great book, the story of my life. I’m greatly touched by the story of Helen Keller. By this book, she wanted to warn us that we should cherish(珍惜) our 74 .
All of us have read thrilling stories in which the main character had only a limited(有限的) time to live. Sometimes it was as 75 as a year, sometimes as short as 24 hours. But always we were interested in discovering just 76 the character chose to spend his last days or his last hours.
In stories the character is usually saved 77 the last minute, but his sense of values is changed. He understood the meaning of life better and was more pleased with 78 he did. Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar situations. Sometimes I thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should 79 tomorrow. People with such an attitude would deeply realize the values of life.
Most of us, 80 , don’t enjoy our life. We know that one day we must die, but we think that day as far in the future. When we are in good health, death is all but unimaginable(不可想象的). We are not thankful for what we have until we 81 it, not conscious(意识到的) of health until we are ill. Let’s cherish our life from now on.

IX．书面表达。（20分）
人生何处不选择？选择，为我们的行动指引方向，选择不对，努力白费。所以，我们，尤其是青年一代，更应积极选择，将主动权掌握在自己手中，只有这样才有机会成就更好的自己。
为此，某英文学习网站特面向广大中学生发起征文，以“选择”为话题，分享自己亲身经历过的一次选择以及对你产生的影响。
参考信息：
1. 选择的意义（重要性......）；
2. 选择的经历(或刻骨铭心的、或影响深远的、或促进成长的......)；
3. 选择的影响(或积极的、或消极的......)；
4. ......
要求：
1. 80~120词，开头已给出，不计入总词数；
2. 文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称等信息；

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